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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember…
— Maya Angelou
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.…
— Watchman Nee
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Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which…
— Norman Mailer
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
— William Butler Yeats
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…
— Pope Francis
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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes…
— Ethel Waters
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Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
— Homer
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And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done,…
— Gautama Buddha
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